Carol Rosenberger’s memoir, To Play Again, has a new ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review on Amazon: “To Play Again, is Carol Rosenberger’s gift to us all, as the alchemy between content and the subjective experience of reading her story lives on long after the ending. Her journey compels us to once again believe in the impossible simply because…
MusicWeb International‘s Jazz Critic, Marc Rochester has a new review for Piet Koornhof and Albie van Schalkwyk‘s Frolov and Friends recording: “Frolov was a violin virtuoso, and these pieces are far more challenging than they sound. It is a huge tribute to Koornhof that he makes them all sound so effortless, coaxing the often sentimental…
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator has a new interview with Constantine Orbelian in light of his third GRAMMY® nomination, “Best Opera Performance”, for Verdi’s Rigoletto. See his reason for wanting to do a recording of the work, and then read the full interview on mirrorspectator.com: First of all, I love opera and love Verdi. What appealed to…
Gramophone Magazine‘s Guy Rickards reviews Piet Koornhof and Albie van Schalkwyk‘s new Frolov and Friends recording in the January 2018 issue: “A fine example of [Frolov]’s use of popular forms is the Piece in Blues Style, quite the finest and most individual work on this disc. Its quiet and relaxed character catches the feel of the…
Originally released in October 2018 on DVD, Blu-Ray, and Digital Download, our Verdi: Messa Da Requiem recording In Memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky is now available on CD! In the wake of the beloved Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s untimely passing in November 2017, tributes, memorials and musical event dedications have flowed non-stop. But none thus far…
Revered cellist, teacher and Delos artist Aldo Parisot passed away last Saturday at age 100, only months after retiring from the teaching position he had held since 1958 at the Yale School of Music. One of the world’s supreme masters of his instrument, he gradually subordinated his brilliant solo career to that of a beloved…
Voix des Arts critic, Joseph Newsome, reviews Mark Abel’s Time And Distance recording featuring Hila Plitmann, Janelle DeStefano, Carol Rosenberger, Tali Tadmor, and Burce Carver: “Too plentiful to enumerate are the passages in this music that are so wrenchingly private that they may compel the listener to ask, ‘How can this man whom I have…
The San Francisco Classical Voice has published their year-end wrap-up of Bay Area recordings and offers some wonderful praise for two Delos releases: Mark Abel: Time and Distance “Sonoma composer Mark Abel offers listeners food for thought with his signature fusion of classical, rock, and jazz and powerful content. Grammy-winning soprano Hila Plitmann brings her…
The Infodad Team has a new review for Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini’s Brahms: Hungarian Dances recording: “Listening to Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker’s performance on a new Delos CD is a tremendously involving and exhilarating experience, likely to make anyone familiar with this music wonder why Joachim’s transcription is not heard more often. … It may be that this version…
It’s hardly surprising that orchestras and opera houses everywhere are still mounting memorial concerts and other events honoring the late, great Dmitri Hvorostovsky (known to us at Delos as “Dima”): perhaps the greatest Verdi baritone of our times. The latest celebration of his matchless art is today’s special concert in Kaunas, Lithuania, where Delos’s two…
Fanfare Magazine has added Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini’s new Brahms: Hungarian Dances recording to their “Not To Be Missed” section with a new interview and review from Jerry Dubins: “There is no way that Brahms’s original piano four-hands version or his arrangements for piano two hands of these dances could ever achieve the tonal…
Delos is proud to announce that the final recording by the late, lamented Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky — Rigoletto (DE 3522) —has been nominated for a 2019 GRAMMY® Award in the Best Opera Recording category. The album was released just days before Hvorostovsky’s untimely death from brain cancer last November. During the great singer’s last two…
Rafael’s Music Notes reviews Stephen Costello’s new A Te, O Cara recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony: “Stephen Costello … is an intelligent, sensitive, highly musical singer who fastidiously pays attention to the text and the dynamic markings of the music he sings in this recording. His sound is luscious, his technique…
MusicWeb International has released their critics’ recordings of the year for 2018, and Robert Farr has nominated our new release of Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem in memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky: “In a year that saw the death of two of the finest opera singers of their generation, Montserrat Caballé and, at the young age…
MusicWeb International critic Ralph Moore reviews Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and Fabio Bidini’s recording of Brahms Hungarian Dances: “Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker certainly plays with great feeling and freedom here, unashamedly milking the opportunities for soulful rubato and rallentando just as the music demands; her accompanist is scrupulous in following her lead, so ensemble is tight. Like Joachim, she…
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